Home to Harlem

Claude McKay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2024
Dover Publications Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-486-85258-4 (ISBN)

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Jake Brown, a World War I army deserter, is one of the protagonists of Claude McKay's novel Home to Harlem. When he leaves London and returns to New York, Jake gets entangled in the seedy side of Harlem life – prostitutes, clubs, and gambling halls. He reunites briefly with a former war buddy, Zeddy Plummer, and later befriends a Haitian immigrant named Ray while they are both working on a train.

The novel explores the plight of young Black men in the early twentieth century in America, and was both applauded and criticized for its sensual, brutal honesty of its portrayal of urban life.

Claude McKay (born September 15, 1889, Nairne Castle, Jamaica, British West Indies—died May 22, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was a Jamaican-born American poet and novelist who was one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance. His book Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by a Black American author to that time. Before moving to the United States in 1912, he wrote two volumes of Jamaican dialect verse, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads (1912).

Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Dover Thrift Editions
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	125 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-486-85258-X / 048685258X
ISBN-13	978-0-486-85258-4 / 9780486852584
Zustand	Neuware